The combination of Shane Black and Ryan Gosling was deadly for Russell Crowe who had a great time filming ‘Two Good Guys’
Thinking about Russell Crowe, with few exceptions derived from his more casual roles in films like ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’, means thinking about a sober performer, tremendously serious and not too inclined to laugh on the set, but to do it out of character. But Everyone, sooner or later, ends up finding their match.and Crowe’s has a first and last name: Ryan Gosling.
Ryan’s screams
As Crowe explained in an interview with GQ, Gosling has been the only co-star who has made him go out of character in the middle of a scene. This, on the other hand, is understandable if we take into account that the feature film in which they collaborated was none other than ‘Two Good Guys’ – ‘The Nice Guys’ -, the hilarious buddy movie in a seventies key directed by Shane Black.
“I loved doing that movie. Ryan Gosling… Jesus. Trying to work with that guy… There’s a thing in acting called corpsing, laughing inappropriately. That little bastard made me laugh all the time.”
Crowe has a reputation for being one of those actors who stays within his character no matter what happens during filming, to the point that Ridley Scott gets funny of the filming ‘Gladiator’.
“I’m famous for not breaking character no matter what. Ridley used to laugh at that. The coliseum could be collapsing behind me and I’d go about my business. But then you have something like ‘Two Good Guys.’ People love it.” that movie”.
I won’t be the one to argue with good old Russell, and few recent films have made me laugh and enjoy as much as Shane Black’s work. A production that It was quite complicated to lift and to which, Black commented in an interview with IndieWire, Crowe only joined once Gosling signed permanently for her.
“My friend Anthony Bagarozzi and I created the script in 2001, which was set in the current era and went nowhere. We tried it again as a series for CBS in 2006 and it didn’t go anywhere either. Finally, in 2014 We put it out one last time, Ryan Gosling read it and his agent said, ‘This is what Ryan is looking for.’ Within three days, Russell Crowe said ‘I like it, and if Ryan does it, I’ll do it.’ , everything fell into place in three days.”
Unfortunately, the premiere of ‘Angry Birds’ ended up burying Black’s ‘Nice Guys’ at the box office. According to Gosling, the animated film “destroyed” them, which is why one had a sequel and the other, despite rumors, is very difficult to continue in a second part. The world, of course, is a horrible place.
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